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Moscow 18. July – Hot. The degrees rose higher than Jesus’ age, meaning upper thirties at times. Moscowites complained, deer groaned, the homeless left for more livable climates. Luckily Moscow has a good metro system which saved us the trouble of Segwaying there. No, we didn’t have Segways, but wouldn’t that be cool, huh? The [...]
Saturday, 17 July The day was mainly dedicated to the Hermitage, a world renowned museum/gallery housed in the over-luxurious Winter palace, one of the former homes of the royal family. Naturally it was also the first place Lenin and the Bolysheviks attacked at the beginning of their October revolution from a ship on the Neva [...]
The battle raged. Cries of war resounded into the night as the buzzing tension built up to a crescendo. There was no way back, nor a way out. They attacked and we were obliged to defend. Their blood spilling incursions put us in a corner of no choice and no remorse. Chemichal weapons had to [...]
Who: Me and my friends Jasmina and Maja, backpacking. Where: Starting in Sankt Petersburg, then traveling by train through Moscow, then taking the Trans-Siberian railway to Mongolia and later Beijing, China. When: Started on 15th July 2010, planned flight back from Beijing on the 25th of August, same year – hopefully a different mindset. Well, [...]
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